Someone calling and threatening my daughter with legal action from this number but won't give any other info.

I got a call from this number saying if i dont call back all he can do is wish me luck.

i got the same call again,comes up as unknown, i was told they were going to send someone to my job, to get me to bring me to court for 300.00 and again i was wished good luck in the matter. they refused to give me any information furture all i was told was that it was from a cash advance payday loan that i never paid back. And they claimed to be the collection agency.

Received 2 calls on 7/31---one on my cell and one on my work phone--both stating that they were with the Legal Affidavit Processing Unit. I spoke with a John Hudson and a Kevin Matt....both very common names, but both had THICK Indian accents. They rattled off the last 4 digits of my SSN AND my bank account number. They stated that I owed $250 from Cash Advance Payday from late 2007, which they said was "successfully transferred" from their bank, US National Bank, into my bank account. He started reading an "affidavit" to me. While this was happening, I was researching my account online and saw no such transfer. I asked him the phone number to the PDL company, and he stated that this was the final step in the process---that the company has no desire whatsoever to speak to me anymore regarding this account. "Give me the name and number of your legal representation", he said. I said, "No. I will contact him myself". "As you wish, ma'am; but by 11 AM tomorrow, you will know the consequences of your actions by defaulting on this account." I said, "What are you talking about?" He said that I will be serving jail time and that "they" will come to get me. I laughed. He said, "This is no laughing matter ma'am. You will be taken to jail." I said, "For $250? Ha! In Iowa, that amount of money is a civil matter and NO ONE goes to jail for that. Sue me. I am calling the local law enforcement and reporting this." "As you wish, ma'am, but all I can say to you now is good luck as the situation around you unfolds." I hung up and immediately called my ex, who is a local Crime Prevention officer. He researched the number and business online and came up with a number of hits on this scam. He advised me to file a formal report with the PD, as well as a report with the state atty general's office and BBB. I am also closing my bank accounts and putting a fraud alert on my credit file. DO NOT GIVE any money or any more personal info to these people.

I got the same call from this  number. I asked the guy to send me a copy of the contract or tell me the exact date of the transfer. I research my account and found no such transfer. I did some payday loans but all of them are good. Can somebody tell me what to do?? Does anybody now where this people are located???

Mobscene...I had the exact same thing happen to me from a different number today.  See 3104940271.  Thank God for this site.  I came across it researching these people!!

THIS IS A SCAM BY TERRORIST TRYING TO CONVINCE AMERICAN CITIZENS TO SEND THEM MONEY SO THEY CAN ATTACK US.  Don't believe a word they tell you.  Contact the American Secret Service.  No one in the US gets arrested for not paying a bill. Remember in America you only get jail time for not paying child support or taxes. Don't let these scammers scare you...Come on people, wake up.  Know when you are being scammed

The BBB isn't going to do anything! Either is anyone else. Not until they mess with the wrong civilian are they going to get what they deserve. Someone needs to call them back and play stupid, get all the information they give, find out where they are, then wreck their lives. I didn't even get called by them, I'm just reading these notes like the con-artists are doing.

This scam has been going on for well over a year, now and has been recognized as such by the BBB:

Chicago, IL ? August 5, 2009 ? The Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert about phony debt collectors that are calling consumers nationwide and claiming that they have defaulted on a payday loan and will be arrested if they don?t pay immediately. Claiming to be lawyers, the scammers say they are with the ?Financial Accountability Association? or the ?Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans? and are equipped with a disconcerting amount of personal information about their potential victims.

?Because the scammers have so much information about potential victims, the BBB is concerned that this may be the result of a data breach,? said Steve J. Bernas, president & CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois. ?Thousands of people may have had their personal information compromised, and given the scammers? tactics, it appears that those who have previously used payday loan services could be particularly at risk.?

According to reports received by the BBB and posted online, the scammers accuse the victim of defaulting on a payday loan and claim they are being sued. The phony debt collector threatens that, if the victim doesn?t pay as much as $1,000 immediately via wire or by providing bank account or credit card numbers, he or she will be arrested and extradited to California within the hour to stand trial. The scammers often may have the victim?s Social Security, old bank account numbers or driver?s license numbers as well as home addresses, employer information and even the names of personal friends and professional references.

The BBB offers the following advice to consumers if they receive a suspicious telephone call about an outstanding debt:
* Ask the debt collector to provide official documentation in writing which substantiates the debt.
* Do not provide or confirm any bank account, credit card or other personal information over the phone until you have confirmed the legitimacy of the call.
* Review recent copies of your credit reports to ensure that the alleged debt is not affecting your credit. Consumers can do this for free once every 12 months, and can find more information here: http://www.ftc.gov/freereports
* Under the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, debt collectors may not harass, oppress, or abuse any person while attempting to collect a debt.
* A debtor may be contacted between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. only and can be contacted at work unless instructed not to.
* File a complaint with the FTC online if the caller is abusive, uses threats or otherwise violates federal telemarketing laws.
* File a complaint with BBB online at www.bbb.org if you believe a debt collector is trying to scam you.

http://www.thinkglink.com/article/2009/08/06/ ... eading-says-bbb

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-618-5897

This is a very active group of scammers, many of whom are calling from India (and probably other countries) and are in cahoots with a group of American pay day loan scammers. They attempt to extort money from consumers with a myriad of false and illegal threats, and alternately pose as debt collectors, federal and state law enforcement officers, lawyers and bankers. Their trademark is to use meaningless legalese gobblygook phrases like "We are downloading warrants against you" or "We are filing an affidavit against you." Another trademark phrase is to threaten the consumer with something like this ridiculous phrase: "If you don't pay then only God can help you."

Typical of many financial scams of this variety, they usually demand payment via Western Union or MoneyGram or credit card. They use any number of phony names such as US National Bank, Federal Investigation Bureau, US Legal Investigation Bureau, Hopkins Law Office, United Legal Processing, Morgan Associates, United Pay Services, National Processing, White Collar Crime Unit and many more.  These criminals also use many phone numbers from many area codes; they're probably using caller-id spoofing software and/or VoIP to disguise their real location.

The main thing to remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest, or demanding your lawyer's name so they can sue you, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) And since these foreign dirtbags routinely impersonate law enforcement, it's also important to remember that American law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection.  (Debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)

The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money.

A consumer posting a complaint about these same scammers at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157 notes that 718-831-7157 is associated with an India-based "outsourcing" telephone bank.  Though a reverse search on WhitePages.com shows that 718-831-7157 is an unlisted land line in New York City, information on Debtbuyers.Com shows that that number is used by India-based Intellisourze. (Source: http://www.debtbuyers.com/debtbuyers.asp ) My guess is that it's a VoIP phone number.

This is another piece of the puzzle that fits in perfectly with other information about this scam. There are some reports on 800Notes that have suggested that the crooks behind this offshore scam are also the crooks behind the notorious Bass/Ellis Crosby & Assoc./States Predisposition scams in Florida and Georgia. The interesting thing is that the number of complaints on here about the US National Bank/US Legal Investigation/Federal Investigation scam skyrocketed *after* April 7, 2008 when Florida obtained a $1.3 million judgment against Ted Ellis Crosby, shutdown his operations and barred him from ever conducting debt collections in Florida (Read http://myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsrel ... 5257424005858A6 ) There's certainly a good chance that the crooks placing these calls from India are doing so on behalf of the American crooks behind the Crosby/Bass/States Predisposition scams.

Here's the contact information for the phone bank in India:

IntellisOurzE BPO
701, Sapphier, Nr. Cargo Motors,
C.G. Road Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad - 9. (Guj.) INDIA.
E-Mail: info@intellisourze.com
Website: www.intellisourze.com

A check on the domain name "intellisourze.com" shows that the website and name registration was created on May 8, just one month *after* the Crosby scams were shut down in Florida:

Domain Name: INTELLISOURZE.COM
Registrant:  Pragra Infratech Pvt. Limited.
Email:  ankur.ranpariya@pragra.com  
908, Aksaht Tower, Nr. ICICI Bank
Opp. Rajpath Club, S.G. Highway
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 380054
Tel. +91.7926871353
Creation Date: 08-May-2008
Expiration Date: 08-May-2009
Domain servers in listed order: ns5.znetindia.com ns4.znetindia.com
(Source: http://whois.domaintools.com/intellisourze.com )

Though scam calls from these crooks have been going on long before May 8, the frequency of complaints about these calls increased considerably after Crosby was shut down in early April.

This is conjecture, but appearances suggest that Crosby and company were originally running a two-pronged payday loan scam operation -- with some calls being made from Jacksonville, Florida and other calls being made from a phone bank in India (and possibly other countries); then, after the Florida Attorney General shut down the Crosby scams in Florida, the Crosby crooks transferred most of their scam efforts to the India phone bank.

If you are targeted by these criminals, be sure to report them to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (most of which you can do online or over the phone):

1) Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov  Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone. And if the crooks claim to be law enforcement, lawyers, officers of the court or bankers, or if they threatened you with arrest, be sure to include that information in your report.

2) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en

3) File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.

4) The caller placed the call under a Texas area code. Even though the caller ID was probably spoofed or they're using VoIP technology to hide the fact that they're really calling from overseas, you should also file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General at http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/complain.shtml

5) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org

6) The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.

If these crooks call back, promise them nothing, pay them nothing and tell them nothing other than that you know they're a scam and that you've reported them to law enforcement. (And be sure to report them to all the agencies above each time they call you.)

By the way, here's just a small sample of numbers used by this particular group of scammers. Read the reports and you'll see the same pattern time and again -- phony organization names, thick foreign accents, and oddly worded threats that are so melodramatic and ridiculous that it's laughable:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-925-262-1327
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-954-6346
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-341-4004
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-856-831-0640
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1140
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-410-505-8128
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-917-464-2534
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-858-6602
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-775-2121
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-949-743-1156
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-1402
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-245-0922
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-723-5572
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2863
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-718-831-7157
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-904-425-2857
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-244-0444
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-678-9724
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-610-571-3252
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-310-909-8245

...and, many, MANY more.

These are thieves, liers and con artist. Do not entertain them, hang up when they call and don't let them scare you.  They like using scare tactics.
Call the police and FTC and your attorney general and report them. I believe they are terrorist also preying on hardworking US Citizens.

I got the same call from a calling himself Steven Smith, Joe Taylor, Paul Hardy, Officer John Conner, Denzel Washington, same guy using different names and numbers, he started calling and making threats about 6 months ago, told me that if I didn't send $1500 in 2 days by courier or wire that I would be arrested on my job.  I told him to stick it where do sun don't shine and he said, I wish you good luck, and I said, when the police get here I'll have my bags packed and be ready.  I'm still waiting for the police.  ITS A SCAM...and by the way, I didn't owe anyone any money.  They stole my information or some fraudalent company sold it to them to try and scare me.  Don't believe a word they say...Hang up if they call and you call the police and BBB, FTC, and the US Secret Service.  Eventually they will get caught and INterpol will shut them down.  They are Scammers and terrorist.

THIS IS A SCAM.  These terrorist use several different names and numbers trying to trick US citizens into sending them money to fund their terrorist attacks.  Call the cops and ABSOLUTELY DO NOT SEND THEM ANY MONEY.  Believe me when I tell you its a BIG SCAM...Notice how they have think accents but common American names....Read between the Scam.